We apologize to anyone who has gotten into trouble for looking at our posts at work. I myself am a “worker bee” as Mer put it, and it’s hard for me because sometimes I want to read or post to the blog at work, but I have to be stealthy and of course put work first. Thus, I totally feel your pain.

A lot of very awesome, cutting-edge, fascinating blogs do warn readers about NSFW content. Maybe we’ll do that one day too, as a courtesy, the day we reach some sort of critical mass. But right now, this blog is still in its infancy and we really just want to enjoy the ride and put forth the pictures that inspire us most.

We’re putting out a magazine soon, and during production we’ve faced difficult decisions to do with censorship in bookstores (like the danger of Issue 1 being polybagged because there’s a bit of nudity)… at least on the blog, where there are no ads, no Barnes and Noble reviewers breathing down our necks, we want to have a little fun and not think about such things.

We very much respect all the readers and commenters and thank you guys for letting us know how you feel about NSFW images. We hope you understand where we’re coming from. As mentioned above we won’t go out of our way to make the blog unreadable at work, but we will sometimes post artistic nudity if the post calls for it. We hope you all continue reading, despite the occasional risque image… just be careful! :)

Thank you guys!

With apologies to the worker bees, may I remind ya’ll that this is by no means the first, or even the umpteenth time CH has posted “edgy” material above a cut? And actually, we have warned readers more than once that CH will occasionally contain NSFW content. That being said, if my wise co-editors wish to put the offending breasts under a cut, it’s their call.

@ Blume, Just because you dislike Sherman’s work and like West’s doesn’t mean my comparison is “totally inaccurate”, thanks. :)

Okay, it works really well if you have a dual-monitor setup. Like if you have one big monitor and you put all your work shit on there, and then use the porno porthole on the laptop… so that it looks like you’e just using the external monitor as the main monitor for your laptop. If you’re not staring at your “blank” laptop monitor all the time, it can be effective… or maybe I’m just fooling myself and everyone at work thinks I look at pr0n all day.

Regarding Katie’s stuff here, I don’t really get much from the cover shot, but I love the second image for its fascinating and dizzying angle – it somehow gives me flashbacks to a time I only half remember, being two or three years old and morbidly fascinated by the forbidden mysteries of The Staircase and its attending Locked Gates Of No LOLZ.

Ironically, given the whole NSFW discussion above, it makes bugger all difference to me whether she’s naked in that shot or not, and in fact I can well imagine loving the image even more if she had on some suitably intriguing outfit. Ho hum.

I of course have no problem with the odd human/lobster/robot/zombie teat popping out on Coilhouse – in fact, the more the merrier on all counts – and personally I don’t really see the point in NSFW filters. It’s age-old and over-simplistic argument admittedly, but if I know that one of my bookmarked sites occasionally posts NSFW content, then I don’t tend to hit it up at work.

That said though, it’s not just about ‘OMG NIPPLE! NSFWWWWW!’, is it? The specific definition of NSFW I keep in mind when posting my stuff has always been: ‘If a boss passing nearby could, at a glance, misconstrue it as pr0n, then don’t risk it.’ According to that model, I think the shots here of Katie potentially could lead to bureaucratic hi-jinks…whereas, say, the video of Isabella Rossellini flyhumping from a while back, or the heavily-polished&posed images of topless types clutching squids I recall from Coilhouse’s jurassic period, almost certainly wouldn’t. Dunno if that helps or not, but I find it useful.

Then again, if I got fired I’d read Coilhouse more, so it’s probably in your interests to have us all clearing our desks out as soon as possible. ;)